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Lake of the Woods is a natural lake near the crest of the Cascade Range in the Fremont–Winema National Forest in southern Oregon in the United States. The lake covers 1,146 acres (4.64 km 2). It was named by Oliver C. Applegate in 1870. Today, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife manages the lake's fishery.
A wigwam, wikiup, wetu , or wiigiwaam (Ojibwe, in syllabics: ᐧᐄᑭᐧᐋᒻ) [1] is a semi-permanent domed dwelling formerly used by certain Native American tribes and First Nations people and still used for ceremonial events.
Lake of the Woods is home to walleye, northern pike, perch, sauger, crappie, panfish, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, lake trout, lake sturgeon, and muskellunge. Lake of the Woods is nicknamed the "Walleye capital of the world". The lake is the host of year-round fishing, with ice fishing being a popular recreation activity on the lake.
Wigwam has also downsized its production and workforce, opened an outlet store and created new socks in recent years. The Sheboygan Press toured the Wigwam manufacturing plant , 5300 Highway 42 ...
Wigwam Stores Inc. was an American chain of discount department stores that was based in Seattle and operated across five states: Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, California and Arizona. The discount department store was a fairly new concept when Wigwam's first store opened in 1946. Wigwam Stores' goal was to sell a wide array of products at a lower ...
The Wigwam Motels, also known as the "Wigwam Villages", is a motel chain in the United States built during the 1930s and 1940s. ... Woods bought the property. Modern ...
Lake of the Woods is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. [2] It is located on the east shore of the lake of the same name within the Winema National Forest, about a mile south of Oregon Route 140. [3] The lake was named by Oliver C. Applegate in 1870, while he was building a road around its perimeter. [4]
Massacre Island, Ontario is a small island in Lake of the Woods, a large lake between the United States and Canada.. It is believed that this island was the site where, on June 6, 1736, a mixed group of Teton-Lakota, Dakota, and Ojibwa killed 21 Frenchmen from New France including Jesuit missionary Jean-Pierre Aulneau as well as Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye.